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SUMMARY:Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri: Social determinants of cognitive aging & inequalities: Challenges and Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:On November 4\, 2022\, Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri (Epidemiology) will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2022-2023 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \n\n\n\nBio: Dr. Zeki Al Hazzouri is an epidemiologist and the overarching goal of her research program is to improve the understanding of how social and cardiovascular factors experienced across the life-course influence cognitive function\, Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s related dementias (AD/ADRD). An important theme of her work focuses on poverty and financial well-being as social determinants of cognitive aging. Another theme of her work also focuses on causal inference methodologies that address challenges in ADRD research including\, inverse probability weighting\, trial emulation\, and regression discontinuity designs. Her work leverages innovative methods such as pooling\, cross-walking and harmonization of existing epidemiological cohorts to address life course ADRD research questions.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/adina-zeki-al-hazzouri/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2022-23 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Shaping an integrated response at the intersection of mental health\, substance use\, and HIV within the IeDEA consortium
DESCRIPTION:Kathryn Lancaster\, PhD\, MPH\nAssistant Professor in Epidemiology\nCollege of Public Health\, The Ohio State University \n Angela Parcesepe\, PhD\, MPH\, MSW \nAssistant Professor\, Department of Maternal and Child Health\, Gillings School of Global Public Health\nUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill \nThe International Epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) consortium was established by the NIH in 2006 to provide a rich resource for globally diverse HIV data to address HIV-related research questions that were not possible to answer with currently existing individual cohorts. The IeDEA consortium collects observational data representing over 2.2 million people living with and at risk for HIV contributed by clinical centers and research groups across 44 countries and 7 geographic regions. \nIn this talk\, we will discuss the IeDEA’s consortium research at the intersection of mental health\, substance use\, and HIV treatment. Mental health and substance use disorders are among the most common comorbidities among people with HIV globally and have been associated with poor quality of life and HIV care continuum outcomes including delayed HIV diagnosis\, suboptimal ART adherence\, and virologic failure. \nThis talk will focus on mental health and substance use research priorities related to the implementation and scale up of ‘Treat All’ policies throughout sub-Saharan Africa\, the integration of mental health and substance use services at HIV clinics throughout the IeDEA consortium\, regional research examining the intersection of depression\, heavy episodic drinking\, and HIV disclosure among people with HIV in IeDEA Cameroon\, and the recent launch of longitudinal cohorts of aging people with HIV (the IeDEA Sentinel Research Network) and adolescents and young adults with HIV (AYANI) in IeDEA. Finally\, we will discuss future directions for research at the intersection of mental health\, substance use\, and HIV treatment in the IeDEA consortium and beyond. \nEmail darcommunications@nih.gov for passcode
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/shaping-an-integrated-response-at-the-intersection-of-mental-health-substance-use-and-hiv-within-the-iedea-consortium/
CATEGORIES:Aging
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Rob Warren: CPC and the Future of Population Research
DESCRIPTION:On February 21\, 2022\, Rob Warren\, Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota and the director of the Minnesota Population Center\, will present “CPC and the Future of Population Research” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nAbout Rob Warren: \n\nI am a sociologist\, demographer\, population health scholar\, and education policy researcher with experience and expertise in the collection\, production\, and dissemination of large-scale data products for research on health\, aging\, education\, and labor force outcomes through my NIH- and NSF-funded work on High School and Beyond (HSB)\, the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS)\, the 1940 U.S. Census\, and the IPUMS version of the Current Population Surveys (IPUMS-CPS). I am involved in the construction of the new 100% count historical Census data sets for IPUMS\, and I have two ongoing NIH-funded projects to link early 20th century U.S. Census data to (1) several modern surveys of older Americans\, including the HRS\, PSID\, and WLS and (2) recent mortality records from the Social Security Administration. \nI am currently Co-Director\, with Theresa Osypuk\, of the NICHD-funded Training Program in Population Health Science (T32HD095134). \nWith Chandra Muller\, Eric Grodsky\, and Jennifer Manly I am conducting follow-up surveys of the High School and Beyond cohort (with support from 1R01AG058719-01A1).  These ~25\,500 people were first interviewed in high school in 1980.  HS&B data – including a 2021-2022 follow-up focused on the early-life predictors of cognitive impairment – provide leverage in understanding the roles of education\, skills\, and childhood social circumstances  in shaping work\, health\, and cognitive well-being at midlife.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/rob-warren/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Aalyia Sadruddin: Death Matters: Notes on Aging and Time in Rwanda
DESCRIPTION:On February 18\, 2022\, Aalyia Sadruddin\, Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, will present “Death Matters: Notes on Aging and Time in Rwanda” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/aalyia-sadruddin/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Julie Bynum: Accelerating population research and its impact to reduce Burden of Alzheimer’s disease
DESCRIPTION:On November 5\, 2021\, Julie Bynum\, the Margaret Terpenning Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine\, Research Professor in the Institute of Gerontology\, Geriatric Center Associate Director for Health Policy and Research\, and a member of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan\, will present “Accelerating population research and its impact to reduce Burden of Alzheimer’s disease” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nDr. Bynum is the Margaret Terpenning Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine\, Research Professor in the Institute of Gerontology\, Geriatric Center Associate Director for Health Policy and Research\, and a member of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. She received her medical and public health degrees from Johns Hopkins\, did her residency and chief residency at Dartmouth\, and completed specialty training in Geriatric Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Bynum then joined the faculty at Dartmouth Medical School.  She received prestigious awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholar Program and the National Institute of Aging Beeson Scholar Program. She has been an Atlantic Philanthropies Health & Aging Policy Fellow\, was a member of the National Academy of Medicine Committee that published “Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress” and was recently a Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. She is currently a member of the National Academy of Medicine Forum on Aging\, Disability and Independence. \nDr. Bynum joined the University of Michigan in 2018 and was recently chosen to succeed Dr. Dick Simon as Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs for the Department of Internal Medicine.  She currently leads a robust portfolio of research\, has taken on a diverse group of junior faculty mentees across the instructional\, clinical and research tracks\, and provides primary and consultative care to older adults. Dr. Bynum is well known for leading interdisciplinary research teams to study questions about the complex drivers of quality and costs for older adults and how to improve health care policy and performance using national administrative data. \nTitle and abstract of lecture will be available soon. \nWe record as many seminars as possible. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/julie-bynum/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Will Dow: Female Sex Workers in the Time of COVID: A Longitudinal Study in Tanzania
DESCRIPTION:On October 29\, 2021\, Will Dow\, the Director of the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging and a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of California-Berkeley School of Public Health\, will present “Female Sex Workers in the Time of COVID: A Longitudinal Study in Tanzania” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \n\nDow\, a celebrated scholar of the economic aspects of health insurance\, health behaviors\, and health and demographic outcomes\, joined the Berkeley faculty in 2004. Since 2005\, he has been the founding associate director of the Berkeley Population Center and\, since 2013\, the director of the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging. He has also served at the School as division head of Health Policy and Management and as the associate dean for research\, and in 2018-19 served as Interim Dean of the School of Public Health. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, and previously served as Senior Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. \nDow’s research contributes to improvements in health policy and healthy aging among vulnerable populations locally and globally. He has led teams analyzing California’s pathbreaking health insurance reforms and paid leave policies\, as well as teams designing innovative behavioral economic strategies for preventing HIV and promoting behavior change such as smoking cessation. His global work includes serving as principal investigator of the premier team studying determinants of Costa Rican’s exceptional longevity\, as well as projects in Cuba\, Mexico\, Tanzania and Japan. \n\nTitle and abstract of lecture will be available soon. \nWe record as many seminars as possible. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/will-dow/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Mark Hayward: Understanding Recent Trends in Dementia Prevalence for Older Black and White Americans
DESCRIPTION:On September 10\, 2021\, Mark Hayward\, Professor of Sociology and the director of the Population Health Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin\, will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nDr. Hayward also serves as the Training Director of the Population Research Center. He recently served as the the president of the Southern Demographic Association\, chair of the Aging and Life Course section of the American Sociological Association\, and is the chair of the Sociology of Population section of the ASA. He has served on the boards of the Population Association of America and the Society of Biodemography and Social Biology\, and he was a member and then chair of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research council. Currently\, he is a member of the Committee on Population\, National Academy of Sciences\, and the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Center for Health Statistics. He recently served on the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health and Society Scholars Program. Hayward received his Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University in 1981. \nHis primary research addresses how life course exposures and events influence the morbidity and mortality experiences of the adult population. Recent studies have clarified how early life conditions influence socioeconomic\, race and gender disparities in adult morbidity and mortality; the demography of race/ethnic and gender disparities in healthy life expectancy; social inequality in the biomarkers of aging\, and the health consequences of marriage\, divorce\, and widowhood. Most recently\, he has been investigating the fundamental inequalities in adult mortality in the United States arising from educational experience\, differences in these associations by race and gender\, and trends in inequality in mortality. Currently\, he is part of a national scientific team examining the role of federal and state policies shaping the growing inequality in life chances in the US adult population. His research on these topics has been by the National Institute on Aging and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development. His recently published work has appeared in the American Journal of Public Health\, Demography\, the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences\, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior\, and Social Science and Medicine. \nAbstract \nObjectives: Today’s talk is motivated by recent evidence that dementia prevalence has been declining in the United States. Less clear\, however\, is whether important sociodemographic groups diverged or perhaps contributed in different ways to the overall national trend. For example\, is the downward trend in dementia prevalence evident across the age range (young old compared to the oldest old)? Do Blacks and Whites both experience downward trends in dementia prevalence? Have changes in educational attainment\, as well as other changes in modifiable risk factors for dementia (such as changes in poor childhood circumstances\, health behaviors\, and health conditions)\, had widespread consequences across major race–age groups \nMethods: The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is used to assess dementia prevalence changes for non-Hispanic Blacks and Whites between 2000-2014 for community dwelling and nursing home residents aged 65 years and older. Cognitive status has been validated using clinical diagnoses and survey scores of a subsample of HRS respondents. The analysis of the dementia prevalence trends is based on logistic regression models predicting the log odds of having dementia as a function of a time-trend variable and a set of relevant covariates. \nResults: Consistent with other studies\, we found significant declines in dementia for Blacks and Whites across the 2000-2014 period. Nonetheless\, these declines were not uniform across age and race groups. Blacks aged 65–74 years had the steepest decline in this period. We also found that improved educational attainment in the population was fundamentally important in understanding declining dementia prevalence in the United States. \nDiscussion: This study shows the importance of improvement in educational attainment in the early part of the twentieth century to understand the downward trend in dementia prevalence in the United States from 2000 to 2014. The downward trend was unrelated to dementia risk \nfactors such as controlled hypertension\, changes in health behaviors\, or changes in early life conditions. This finding has implications not only for understanding current trends in the United States\, but also the potential role of the growth in cognitive ability and functioning in other countries that underwent similar rapid expansions in schooling. \nWe record as many seminars as possible. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/mark-hayward/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture: Teresa Seeman: Aging Trajectories Through Biopsychosocial Lens
DESCRIPTION:The J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture will be held on April 30\, 2020. \nTeresa Seeman\, PhD\, will present “Aging Trajectories Through Biopsychosocial Lens.” Seeman is Professor of Epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health and of Medicine in the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Trained as an epidemiologist\, with post-doctoral training in neuroendocrinology\, her research interests are inter-disciplinary\, focusing on role of social and psychological factors in health and aging\, with particular interest in elucidating the biological pathways through which such factors impact on health. \nWorking in both community- and laboratory-based contexts\, her work has documented the widespread health effects of protective social factors (e.g.\, social relationships) and psychological characteristics (e.g.\, control beliefs\, perceptions of self-efficacy)\, including effects on risks for physical and cognitive decline as well as overall longevity. Her research has also contributed to our understanding of how these social and psychological influences are mediated through multiple major biological regulatory systems. She has been a leader in empirical research on a multi-systems view of biological risk – allostatic load. \nHer work has shown that levels of allostatic load predict subsequent health outcomes\, and that differences in allostatic load are related to social factors\, including levels of social integration and support as well as more traditional measures of socio-economic status [SES]: higher allostatic load seen among those reporting less social integration and/or support and lower SES. Her current research is focused on developing more integrated models that incorporate consideration of life-course experiences with stressful and protective conditions and the cumulative impacts of these experiences on major biological regulatory systems that determine trajectories of health and longevity. \nAbstract: \nThe presentation will examine evidence linking socio-economic and socio-emotional life-histories to trajectories of aging with explicit attention to the multiple biological pathways involved in these relationships.  Taking a life-course perspective\, illustrative examples of the patterning of these relationships across the life-course will be reviewed.  Evidence of later-life plasticity of psychosocial and biological influences will be highlighted\, illustrating the potential for health promotion via psychosocial interventions even at later ages. \nAbout the annual J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture Series:  Dick Udry’s research was highly innovative and interdisciplinary—features that he embedded in the Carolina Population Center’s practices and culture as its Director. In recognition of his enduring contributions\, CPC named its distinguished lecture series in his honor. Previous presenters have included Dr. Lisa Berkman\, the Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies\, the Director of Harvard’s PhD program in Population Health Sciences\, and the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy\, Epidemiology\, and Global Health and Population (2019);  Dr. Douglas Massey\, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University (2018) and Dr. John Bongaarts\, Vice President and Distinguished Scholar of the Population Council (2017). \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/j-richard-udry-distinguished-lecture-teresa-seeman-aging-trajectories-through-biopsychosocial-lens/
CATEGORIES:Aging,J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture
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SUMMARY:Nancy Krieger: COVID-19\, structural racism\, embodied histories\, and the two-edged sword of data: structural problems require structural solutions
DESCRIPTION:On April 23\, 2021\, Nancy Krieger\, Professor of Social Epidemiology\, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences\, and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women\, Gender\, and Health.\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\, will present “COVID-19\, structural racism\, embodied histories\, and the two-edged sword of data: structural problems require structural solutions” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-2021 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nSuggested readings from Dr. Krieger \nAbstract: \nCOVID-19 has pulled the thread\, starkly revealing both profound connections – and profound divisions – both within the US and within and between countries worldwide\, with risk of infection\, illness\, and death profoundly and inequitably socially structured. Analyzing and acting to alter the myriad ways in which structural racism systemically generates health inequities\, including for COVID-19\, requires engaging with the two-edged sword of data. This sword cuts deeply with respect to the profound challenges of conceptualizing\, operationalizing\, and analyzing the very data deployed – i.e.\, racialized categories – to document racialized health inequities. In my presentation\, I use the example of COVID-19 to dissect the sword’s two edges: (1) the non-use (Edge #1) and (2) problematic use (Edge #2) of data on racialized groups – but the point is data for health justice. Because structural problems require structural solutions\, for both data and action for health justice\, I conclude with recommendations for a new feasible enforceable institutional mandate for the reporting and analysis of publicly-funded work involving racialized groups and health data. A core requirement is that racialized health data must always be conceptually justified and analyzed in relation to relevant data about racialized societal inequities. A new opportunity arises as US government agencies re-engage with their work\, with a stated commitment to racial and economic justice\, to move forward with structural measures to sharpen and strengthen the work for health equity. \nBio: \nNancy Krieger is Professor of Social Epidemiology and American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor\, in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women\, Gender\, and Health. She received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989. Dr. Krieger is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist\, with a background in biochemistry\, philosophy of science\, and the history of public health\, combined with over 35 years of activism linking issues involving social justice\, science\, and health. In 2004\, she became an ISI highly cited scientist (reaffirmed: 2015 ISI update)\, a group comprising “less than one-half of one percent of all publishing researchers\,” and in 2019 she was ranked as being “in the top 0.01% of scientists based on your impact” for both total career and in 2017 by a new international standardized citations metrics author database\, including as #1 among the 90 top scientists listed for 2017 with a primary field of public health and secondary field of epidemiology (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384). In 2013 she received the Wade Hampton Frost Award from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association\, and in 2015\, she was awarded the American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship\, which was renewed in 2020; also in 2020\, she was awarded the American College of Epidemiology’s “Outstanding Contributions to Epidemiology” award. \nInformed by an analysis of the history and politics of epidemiology and public health\, Dr. Krieger’s work addresses three topics: (1) conceptual frameworks to understand\, analyze\, and improve the people’s health\, including her ecosocial theory of disease distribution\, focused on embodiment and equity; (2) etiologic research on societal determinants of population health and health inequities\, including structural racism and other types of adverse discrimination; and (3) methodologic research to improve monitoring of health inequities. She is author of Epidemiology and The People’s Health: Theory and Context (Oxford University Press (OUP)\, 2011) and editor for the OUP series “Small Books Big Ideas in Population Health” (starting with Political Epidemiology & The People’s Health\, by Jason Beckfield\, OUP\, 2018; Climate Change & The People’s Health\, by Sharon Friel\, OUP\, 2019; and Critical Epidemiology & The People’s Health by Jaime Brielh\, OUP\, 2021). She also is editor of Embodying Inequality: Epidemiologic Perspectives (Baywood Press\, 2004) and co-editor\, with Glen Margo\, of AIDS: The Politics of Survival (Baywood Publishers\, 1994)\, and\, with Elizabeth Fee\, of Women’s Health\, Politics\, and Power: Essays on Sex/Gender\, Medicine\, and Public Health (Baywood Publishers\, 1994). In 1994 she co-founded\, and still chairs\, the Spirit of 1848 Caucus of the American Public Health Association\, which focuses on links between social justice and public health. \n  \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here. \n 
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/nancy-krieger-structural-racism-and-peoples-health-history-and-context-matters/
CATEGORIES:2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Margaret Sheridan: Deprivation and threat\, testing conceptual model of adversity exposure and developmental outcomes
DESCRIPTION:On April 9\, 2021\, Margaret Sheridan\, an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, will present “Deprivation and threat\, testing conceptual model of adversity exposure and developmental outcomes” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract: \nExposure to childhood adversity is common and associated with a host of negative developmental outcomes as well as differences in neural structure and function. It is commonly posited that these social experiences “get under the skin” in early childhood\, increasing long-term risk through disruptions to biology. In this talk I propose a novel approach to studying the link between adversity\, brain development\, and risk for psychopathology\, the dimensional model of adversity and psychopathology (DMAP). In this model we propose that adversity exposure can be defined according to  different dimensions which we expect to impact health and well-being through different neural substrates. Whereas we expect deprivation to primarily disrupt function and structure of lateral association cortex (e.g.\, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and superior parietal cortex) and thus complex cognitive processing such as executive functioning. In contrast\, we expect threat to alter structure and function of subcortical structures such as the hippocampus and amygdala and midline regions associated with emotion regulation such as the ventral medial prefrontal cortex and thus\, associated emotion reactivity and automatic regulation processes. In a series of studies I test the basic tenants of the DMAP concluding that initial evidence\, using both a priori hypothesis testing and data-driven approaches is consistent with the proposed model. I conclude by describing future work addressing multiple dimensions of adversity and potential adjustments to the model. \nBio: \nMargaret Sheridan is an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the director of the Child Imaging Research on Cognition and Life Experiences Lab (CIRCLE Lab). Margaret’s research examines typical and atypical neurodevelopment of the prefrontal cortex and related systems supporting development of executive function across age. In particular within the CIRCLE lab we examine how early life experiences ranging from maltreatment to poverty or institutionalization impact neural development leading to risk for externalizing psychopathology. Our work has demonstrated that exposure to a variety of early life adversities are related to deficits in function of the prefrontal cortex and that different exposures may impact neural development in specific ways. In particular exposures to threat or violence may impact neural development and thus risk for externalizing psychopathology differently than exposures characterized by a lack of social interaction\, cognitive enrichment\, and complex linguistic experience. The CIRCLE lab uses multiple neuroimaging methods (e.g.\, EEG/ERP\, fMRI\, structural MRI) and multiple behavioral methods (e.g.\, cognitive testing\, structured clinical interview\, in home observation) to achieve these goals. \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/margaret-sheridan-tbd/
CATEGORIES:2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Cassandra Davis: Moving from research to practice: A reflection on hurricanes\, schools\, and stakeholders
DESCRIPTION:On March 19\, 2021\, Cassandra Davis\, Research Assistant Professor of Public Policy at UNC\, will present “Moving from research to practice: A reflection on hurricanes\, schools\, and stakeholders” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract: \nIn 2020 alone\, FEMA declared ten major disaster declarations due to a hurricane or tropical storm across eight states and one U.S. territory.  Research suggest that our current decade will see more hydrological hazards will greater intensity as compared to years prior. With this detrimental shift in our communities\, how will schools fare in supporting the academic and emotional needs of their students and educators. In this presentation\, Dr. Davis will share findings from her study that investigated the impact of hurricanes on educators and students in Texas and North Carolina. She will conclude with her process on engaging stakeholders at the regional\, state\, and federal levels. \nBio: \nCassandra R. Davis\, Ph.D.\, is a research professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the environmental disruptions to schooling\, specifically the impact of natural disasters on low-income\, communities of color. Dr. Davis’ goal is to support educators\, community leaders\, and policymakers to improve responses\, preparedness\, and recovery in areas with the highest need. Her most recent project focus on the impact of COVID-19 on schooling communities and First-generation college students. From 2017-2020\, Dr. Davis received funding from the National Science Foundation to explore the impacts of Hurricanes Florence (2018)\, Harvey (2017)\, and Matthew (2016)\, on schools\, educators\, and students. Dr. Davis has also collaborated with school districts to assist them with understanding and applying best practice strategies on topics related to recovering from natural hazards\, improving graduation rates of underrepresented groups\, supporting students with learning differences\, identifying opportunity and achievement gaps amongst students\, assessing the quality of professional development training for school personnel\, and investigating ways to improving school-parent engagement. \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/cassandra-davis/
CATEGORIES:2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Michal Engelman: Deaths\, Disparities\, and Cumulative (Dis)Advantage: How Social Inequities shape an Impairment Paradox in Later Life
DESCRIPTION:On March 5 2021\, Michal Engelman\, an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, will present “Deaths\, Disparities\, and Cumulative (Dis)Advantage: How Social Inequities shape an Impairment Paradox in Later Life” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract \nResearch on health across the life course consistently documents widening racial and socioeconomic disparities from childhood through adulthood\, followed by stabilization\, convergence\,or cross-overs in later life. This pattern appears to contradict expectations informed by cumulative(dis)advantage theory\, but may be a function of differential mortality risks earlier in the life course. Using the Health and Retirement Study\, we characterize the functional impairment histories of a nationally-representative sample of 8\,464 older adults between 1992-2016. Employing non-parametric analyses and discrete outcome multinomial logistic regressions\, we examine how midlife health and social position influence subsequent health change\, mortality and attrition at older ages. Exposures to disadvantages earlier in the life course are strongly associated with poorer functional health in midlife and with mortality. However\, a higher number of functional limitations in midlife is negatively associated with the accumulation of subsequent limitations for white men and women and for Black women\, but not Black men. The impact of social exposures such as educational attainment and marriage on later life health also differs across race and gender groups. The apparent convergence in later-life functional impairment across groups defined by race\, gender\, and socioeconomic status emerges from the impact of social and health inequities on earlier mortality. Higher exposure to disadvantages and a lower protective impact of advantageous exposures lead to higher mortality among Black Americans\, a pattern which in turn masks persistent health inequities later in life. \nBio \nEngelman is a demographer and gerontologist studying the dynamics of population aging and the determinants of longevity and well-being at older ages. Her work examines trajectories of health throughout the life course and their connection with changing aggregate patterns of mortality and morbidity over time. She is currently analyzing the implications of historical population change for contemporary health inequalities and developing a conceptual framework linking demographic and clinical notions of frailty and resilience with the sociological concept of cumulative disadvantage. \n  \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/michal-engelman-deaths-disparities-and-cumulative-disadvantage-how-social-inequities-shape-an-impairment-paradox-in-later-life/
CATEGORIES:2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:John Batsis: The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts? The Importance of Fat and Muscle in the Aging Process.
DESCRIPTION:On February 26\, 2021\, John Batsis\, an Associate Professor\, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gillings School of Global Public Health\, will present “The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts? The Importance of Fat and Muscle in the Aging Process” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract: \nWith the population of adults aged 65 years and older increasing\, so is the prevalence of obesity and the risk of developing age-related loss of muscle mass and strength\, termed sarcopenia. These two disease entities independently increase a person’s risk for impaired physical function\, disability\, and death. Yet\, a subset is classified as having sarcopenic obesity which is thought to be at higher risk for synergistic complications from both sarcopenia and obesity. This presentation will initially describe the importance and consequences of obesity\, sarcopenia\, and the consequences of the two in older adults. The emerging literature on health promotion will be presented along with the critical gaps and existing barriers that need to be overcome to advance the field and translate findings into clinical practice. \nBiography: \nDr. Batsis is a geriatrician and health services researcher that recently joined the faculty at UNC Chapel Hill in September 2020. Previously\, he was on faculty at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth since 2008. He has considerable experience in large datasets analyses where he has evaluated important relationships between the changes observed in fat and muscle with aging (obesity and sarcopenia) on important outcomes relevant to older adults\, including mortality and physical function. His specific interests are in the synergistic impact of obesity and low muscle mass and strength\, sarcopenic obesity\, and has published extensively in this field. Dr. Batsis recently is a participating member on an International Consensus Definition workgroup for this syndrome. \nHis recent work has focused on translating large-dataset epidemiology-based work to clinical trials in older adults. He is focusing on obesity and the use of technology to improve one’s health. Dr. Batsis has a keen interest in health promotion through the lifecourse and has focused his interests in body composition changes during weight loss efforts. He has written explicitly on the importance of close monitoring in this population. Importantly\, he leverages his ongoing experience in providing clinical care in the outpatient and nursing home settings to older adults with multimorbidity and frailty which inform his research work. \nDr. Batsis is currently funded by the National Institute on Aging and has published over 140 papers. He has received several clinical and research accolades having received the New Investigator Award from the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and was selected to the prestigious TidesWell Emerging Leaders in Aging Program for mid-career faculty in geriatrics. He is heavily involved at the national level as a long-standing member of the research committee of AGS and the Gerontological Society of America\, and was a member of The Obesity Society’s Clinical Committee. He recently was appointed to the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and the Journal of Gerontological Medical Sciences. \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/john-batsis-tbd/
CATEGORIES:2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Margaret Hicken: Landscapes of racial dispossession and control: Cultural and structural racism and population health inequities
DESCRIPTION:On November 13\, 2020\, Margaret Hicken\, a Research Associate Professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center\, will present “Landscapes of racial dispossession and control: Cultural and structural racism and population health inequities” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract: \nThe health inequalities between Black and White Americans have been well-documented for decades\, with much of the population and public health literature still focused on individual-level behaviors and health care. A small but growing literature has called for an emphasis on structural racism as the root driver of these inequalities\, but often focus solely on single institutional aspects of US structure\, on contemporary forms of racism\, and/or on the psychosocial impact of racism. In the Landscapes of Racial Dispossession and Control project\, historical and contemporary forms of racial violence are linked through notions of cultural racism to result in sustained racial health inequalities. Cultural racism is composed of our shared values\, ideologies\, and beliefs of what it means to be American. These value systems then shape the ways our interconnected and symbiotic institutions operate to create our social structure. In other words\, cultural racism shapes the structural answers to “Whose life counts?”. With a framework linking cultural and structural racism through history\, the fundamental drivers — and potential intervention points — of contemporary population health inequalities becomes clearer. \nBio: \nMaggie Hicken is an interdisciplinary population health scientist with training in both demography and epidemiology as well as molecular and cellular biology and population genetics. She examines notions of cultural and structural racism and their relation to health inequities through biological mechanisms. Much of her research to date has focused on cultural racism and the toxic burden of vigilance on the part of Black Americans as they navigate everyday White space as well as on modifying impact of biosocial stress on the association between environmental hazards and health. With her K01 award\, she gained training in population genetics and has examined the role of the social environment in the link between genes and chronic conditions. Further\, with her current R01-funded research\, she is examining the both historical and contemporary forms of residential segregation\, the interactive impact of social stressors and environmental hazards\, and DNA methylation patterns that might be associated with racial inequalities in aging. Through each thread of her research\, Dr. Hicken weaves together theory from the humanities\, legal studies\, and social science to clarify the root causes of racial health inequalities. \nThis event will be held on Zoom and is closed to the public. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/margaret-hicken-landscapes-of-racial-dispossession-and-control/
CATEGORIES:2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Courtney Boen: Embodying Racism: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Disparities in Health and Aging
DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled. We will update as soon as we can reschedule for later this year. \nOn April 17\, 2020\, Courtney Boen\, Assistant Professor of Sociology\, University of Pennsylvania\, will present “Embodying Racism: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Disparities in Health and Aging” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Boen is an alumni of the CPC Training Program. \nBoen’s research focuses primarily on the social determinants of population health inequality\, with particular attention to the social factors producing racial and socioeconomic health inequities. Utilizing biomarkers of physiological functioning and cellular aging and a variety of analytic techniques\, her work aims to improve scientific understanding how macro-level social inequality “gets under the skin” to produce health disparities from birth through late life. Currently\, she is engaged in several projects that examine how exposure to racism-related stress in various domains of social life (e.g.\, in neighborhoods\, in contacts with the criminal justice system\, and in interpersonal interactions) contributes to racial disparities in pre-disease biological markers of health and aging. Her other ongoing and previous studies further investigate the social factors producing racial and socioeconomic health disparities. She has examined how disparities in socioeconomic conditions—including differential access to wealth and exposure to early-life socioeconomic disadvantage—contribute to population health inequality. I have also collaborated on projects that assess how access to social relationships and exposure to relationship strain contribute to disparities in health and disease risk. Her research has been published in Social Science and Medicine\, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\, Biodemography and Social Biology\, and the Journal of Aging and Health. \nPresentation Abstract: \nThe divergence and persistence of Black-White health gaps from mid- and late life has led scholars to hypothesize that Black Americans may experience accelerated aging relative to Whites due to racial differences in social exposures. Still\, the social and biological processes undergirding racial disparities in health and mortality remain to be better understood. In this talk\, I bridge insights from critical race theory and biodemography to examine the life course patterns and determinants of Black-White disparities in health and aging. First\, using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)\, I assess Black-White gaps in biological aging and further examine the role of life course socioeconomic and stress exposures in producing racial disparities in biological age acceleration. Next\, drawing on work using a variety of survey and social media data\, I show how exposure to vicarious and cultural racism-related stress may also play an essential—but largely underestimated role—in producing Black-White patterns of health and aging. Together\, findings from these studies show that\, while life course socioeconomic exposures are critical drivers of racial health disparities\, socioeconomic resources cannot “buy” Black Americans the health protections associated with whiteness. In order to more fully capture the role of racism in shaping population health inequality\, research on racial disparities in health and aging must expand beyond individual measures of social exposures to also integrate measures reflecting the interactional\, cultural\, and structural nature of racism. \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated. \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/interdisciplinary-research-seminars-courtney-boen/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Nancy Krieger: Structural Racism and People's Health: History and Context Matters
DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled. We will update as soon as we can reschedule for later this year. \nOn April 3\, 2020\, Nancy Krieger\, Professor of Social Epidemiology\, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences\, and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women\, Gender\, and Health.\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\, will present “Structural Racism and People’s Health: History and Context Matters” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nNancy Krieger is Professor of Social Epidemiology\, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences\, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women\, Gender\, and Health. She has been a member of the School’s faculty since 1995. Dr. Krieger is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist (PhD\, Epidemiology\, UC Berkeley\, 1989)\, with a background in biochemistry\, philosophy of science\, and history of public health\, plus 30+ years of activism involving social justice\, science\, and health. In 2004\, she became an ISI highly cited scientist\, a group comprising “less than one-half of one percent of all publishing researchers\, with her ranking reaffirmed in the 2015 update.” In 2013\, she received the Wade Hampton Frost Award from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association\, and in 2015\, she was awarded the American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship. In 2019\, Dr. Krieger was ranked as being “in the top 0.01% of scientists based on your impact” for both total career and in 2017 by a new international standardized citations metrics author database\, including as #1 among the 90 top scientists listed for 2017 with a primary field of public health and secondary field of epidemiology (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384) \nDr. Krieger’s work addresses three topics: (1) conceptual frameworks to understand\, analyze\, and improve the people’s health\, including the ecosocial theory of disease distribution she first proposed in 1994 and its focus on embodiment and equity; (2) etiologic research on societal determinants of population health and health inequities; and (3) methodologic research on improving monitoring of health inequities. In April 2011\, Dr. Krieger’s book\, Epidemiology and the People’s Health: Theory and Context\, was published by Oxford University Press. This book presents the argument for why epidemiologic theory matters. Tracing the history and contours of diverse epidemiologic theories of disease distribution from ancient societies on through the development of — and debates within — contemporary epidemiology worldwide\, it considers their implications for improving population health and promoting health equity. She is also editor of Embodying Inequality: Epidemiologic Perspectives (Baywood Press\, 2004) and co-editor\, with Glen Margo\, of AIDS: The Politics of Survival (Baywood Publishers\, 1994)\, and\, with Elizabeth Fee\, of Women’s Health\, Politics\, and Power: Essays on Sex/Gender\, Medicine\, and Public Health (Baywood Publishers\, 1994). In 1994 she co-founded\, and still chairs\, the Spirit of 1848 Caucus of the American Public Health Association\, which is concerned with the links between social justice and public health. \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated. \n 
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/interdisciplinary-research-seminars-nancy-krieger/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Becky Pettit: Illusions of Justice: Crime and Punishment in a Model Reform State
DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled. We will update as soon as we can reschedule for later this year. \nOn March 27\, 2020\, Becky Pettit\, the Barbara Pierce Bush Regents Professorship of Liberal Arts\, University of Texas at Austin\, will present “Illusions of Justice: Crime and Punishment in a Model Reform State” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nBecky Pettit is the Barbara Pierce Bush Regents Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a sociologist\, trained in demographic methods\, with interests in social inequality broadly defined.  She is the author of two books and numerous articles which have appeared in the American Sociological Review\, the American Journal of Sociology\, Demography\, Social Problems\, Social Forces and other journals. Her book\, Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress (Russell Sage Foundation 2012)\, investigates how decades of growth in America’s prisons and jails obscures basic accounts of racial inequality.  Her first book\, co-authored with Jennifer Hook of the University of Southern California\, Gendered Tradeoffs: Family\, Social Policy\, and Economic Inequality in Twenty-One Countries (Russell Sage Foundation 2009) was selected as a Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics in 2010. \nPettit has been the recipient of many honors and awards.  Her paper “Black-White Wage Inequality\, Employment Rates\, and Incarceration” (with Bruce Western of Columbia University) received the James Short paper award from the American Sociological Association Crime\, Law\, and Deviance Section.  Another paper “Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course:  Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration” (with Western) received Honorable Mention from the American Sociological Association Sociology of Law Section Article Prize Committee.  A related paper (also with Hook) was a finalist for the 2006 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.  She was elected to membership in the Sociological Research Association in 2018. \nPettit has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation\, Northwestern University\, and the American Bar Foundation\, and was a recipient of a mentored research development award (K01) from the National Institutes of Health (NICHD) for her work on “Institutionalizing Inequality:  Gender\, Work and Family.”  Pettit’s research has been featured in the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, the Washington Post\, MSNBC\, and numerous other media outlets.  She has been invited to speak at the White House\, the Congressional Budget Office\, the Department of Health and Human Services\, the U.S. Census Bureau\, and many colleges and universities. \nProfessor Pettit teaches courses on social inequality\, methods\, and statistics.  She edited Social Problems\, the official journal of the Society of the Study of Social Problems\, from 2011-2014. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University and a B.A. in sociology from University of California at Berkeley. \nPresentation Abstract: \nAbstract:  Two decades of crime declines in the United States and significant and sustained policy attention to criminal justice reform has led some observers to suggest that the U.S. is reconsidering its experiment in mass incarceration.  Most Americans are at the lowest risk of victimization in a generation and some states\, like Texas\, have attracted outsized attention for reform efforts to reduce the number of people held in state prisons and jails\, decrease sentence lengths and time served\, and offer community-based supervision and non-custodial sanctions.  However\, and despite significant rhetoric of criminal justice reform\, incarceration and criminal justice contact in the United States more broadly – and the Lonestar state specifically – remains historically and comparatively high.  Texas sanctions more people each year through the criminal justice system than live in Wyoming\, Vermont\, North Dakota\, Alaska\, South Dakota\, Delaware\, and Montana combined.  In this paper\, I examine whether and how contemporary criminal justice policy in Texas influences exposure to the criminal justice system.  I consider how recent reforms in criminal justice policy and practice impact different demographic groups\, influence accounts of inequality\, and align with principles of justice. \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/interdisciplinary-research-seminars-becky-pettit/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Chantel Martin: Embodying Place: Neighborhood Environment and Health Disparities
DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled. We will update this page when it’s rescheduled.  \nOn March 20\, 2020\, Chantel Martin\, a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, will present “Embodying Place: Neighborhood Environment and Health Disparities” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Martin is also a Postdoctoral Scholar at CPC.\nChantel Martin is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and the Carolina Population Center at UNC Chapel Hill. As an epidemiologist\, her interdisciplinary research program combines methods and models from social science\, biology\, and life course epidemiology to understand the impact of the social environment during sensitive periods of development on racial/ethnic disparities in cardiometabolic health disparities; and elucidate the biological underpinnings that link the social environment to health disparities. Her research is currently supported by an NIH K99/R00 Pathways to Independence Award and the NIMHD Social Epigenomics Research Focused on Minority Health and Health Disparities program. Chantel received her PhD in Epidemiology from UNC Chapel Hill and her MSPH from UNC Charlotte. Her talk will explore the association of the neighborhood social environment with cardiometabolic health across the life course and introduce potential biological mechanisms that may partially explain these associations. \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/chantel-martin-embodying-place-neighborhood-environment-and-health-disparities/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200305T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200305T170000
DTSTAMP:20260605T053255
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture: Teresa Seeman: Aging Trajectories Through Biopsychosocial Lens
DESCRIPTION:Update: This lecture has been canceled. We will update the website with more information shortly. \nThe J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture will be held on March 5\, 2020\, 3:30-5:00 pm. \nTeresa Seeman\, PhD\, will present “Aging Trajectories Through Biopsychosocial Lens.” Seeman is Professor of Epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health and of Medicine in the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Trained as an epidemiologist\, with post-doctoral training in neuroendocrinology\, her research interests are inter-disciplinary\, focusing on role of social and psychological factors in health and aging\, with particular interest in elucidating the biological pathways through which such factors impact on health. \nWorking in both community- and laboratory-based contexts\, her work has documented the widespread health effects of protective social factors (e.g.\, social relationships) and psychological characteristics (e.g.\, control beliefs\, perceptions of self-efficacy)\, including effects on risks for physical and cognitive decline as well as overall longevity. Her research has also contributed to our understanding of how these social and psychological influences are mediated through multiple major biological regulatory systems. She has been a leader in empirical research on a multi-systems view of biological risk – allostatic load. \nHer work has shown that levels of allostatic load predict subsequent health outcomes\, and that differences in allostatic load are related to social factors\, including levels of social integration and support as well as more traditional measures of socio-economic status [SES]: higher allostatic load seen among those reporting less social integration and/or support and lower SES. Her current research is focused on developing more integrated models that incorporate consideration of life-course experiences with stressful and protective conditions and the cumulative impacts of these experiences on major biological regulatory systems that determine trajectories of health and longevity. \nAbstract: \nThe presentation will examine evidence linking socio-economic and socio-emotional life-histories to trajectories of aging with explicit attention to the multiple biological pathways involved in these relationships.  Taking a life-course perspective\, illustrative examples of the patterning of these relationships across the life-course will be reviewed.  Evidence of later-life plasticity of psychosocial and biological influences will be highlighted\, illustrating the potential for health promotion via psychosocial interventions even at later ages. \nAbout the annual J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture Series:  Dick Udry’s research was highly innovative and interdisciplinary—features that he embedded in the Carolina Population Center’s practices and culture as its Director. In recognition of his enduring contributions\, CPC named its distinguished lecture series in his honor. Previous presenters have included Dr. Lisa Berkman\, the Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies\, the Director of Harvard’s PhD program in Population Health Sciences\, and the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy\, Epidemiology\, and Global Health and Population (2019);  Dr. Douglas Massey\, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University (2018) and Dr. John Bongaarts\, Vice President and Distinguished Scholar of the Population Council (2017).
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/j-richard-udry-distinguished-lecture-teresa-seeman/
LOCATION:Joan Heckler Gillings Auditorium (133 Rosenau Hall)\, 133 Rosenau Hall\, 135 Dauer Drive\, Gillings School of Public Health\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27599‑7400\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aging,J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T053255
CREATED:20191206T185951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145301Z
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SUMMARY:Jessica Su: Wealth\, Assets\, and Unintended Childbearing
DESCRIPTION:On February 28\, 2020\, Jessica Su\, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center\, will present “Wealth\, Assets\, and Unintended Childbearing” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nDr. Jessica Houston Su is a sociologist who studies American family life and inequality. As a family demographer\, she uses a sociological lens and quantitative analytic techniques to examine social patterns of family formation and how they are related to the health and well-being of parents and children. Her research contributes to the sociological literature in families\, health\, inequality\, work\, and demography. One stream of her research examines the causes and consequences of unintended and nonmarital fertility. For example\, she examines how both macro and micro economic resources shape patterns of unintended childbearing. She also examines the short- and long-term implications of unintended childbearing for the mental health of parents and children. Another stream of research examines how nonstandard work schedules are related to the well-being of working mothers and their young children. Her research appears in peer-reviewed journals such as Demography\, the Journal of Marriage and Family\, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University and her B.A. in Sociology from Dartmouth College. \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/interdisciplinary-research-seminars-jessica-su/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200221T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200221T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T053255
CREATED:20191206T185951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145301Z
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SUMMARY:Alison Buttenheim: Nudging or Fudging? Realizing the potential for behavioral economics to improve population health
DESCRIPTION:Watch live via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/491702016 \nOn February 21\, 2020\, Alison Buttenheim will present “Nudging or Fudging? Realizing the potential for behavioral economics to improve population health” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Buttenheim is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Penn Nursing\, an Assistant Professor of Health Policy\, Perelman School of Medicine; a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics\, the Associate Director of the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics and the Associate Director of the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania. \nAlison M. Buttenheim wants to understand how people make decisions about their health and focuses her research on the use of behavioral economics to increase the uptake of evidence-based care. Her work ranges from how households in Peru decide whether to apply insecticide to eliminate a disease-carrying insect vector to why parents in the United States request exemptions from child immunization laws. \nPresentation Abstract: \nApplying behavioral economics insights to global health programs offers great potential to address the “last mile” behavioral challenges to achieving better health outcomes. Researchers and practitioners from several disciplines have generated promising results in diverse settings through focused laboratory or basic science studies and through field experiments. There is robust demand from health ministries\, funders\, and bilateral and multilateral development agencies for bringing a behavioral economics lens to intervention and program development.  That said\, the field is also producing many null or negative trials\, many of which are never published\, and is also falling short in widespread dissemination and scale of successful interventions. In this talk\, I propose four barriers (and some solutions) to realizing the full potential for behavioral economics approaches to meaningfully improve population health: imprecision in the use of the “nudge” concept\, inadequate intervention design processes\, ignoring heterogeneous treatment effects\, and insufficient attention paid to implementation. \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/interdisciplinary-research-seminars-alison-buttenheim/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200214T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T053255
CREATED:20191206T192123Z
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SUMMARY:Oscar Gonzalez: On Learning Machine Learning
DESCRIPTION:On February 14\, 2020\, Oscar Gonzalez\, an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, will present “On Learning Machine Learning” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nDr. Gonzalez studies statistical mediation\, machine learning/data mining\, and psychometrics and how these statistical methods can help identify\, evaluate\, and measure mechanisms of behavior change in interventions or prevention programs. \nPresentation abstract: \nOn Learning Machine Learning \nA lot of research in the social sciences has focused on hypothesis-driven\, explanatory approaches to data analysis. Machine learning could supplement a researcher’s analytic toolbox to explore patterns in datasets and study research hypothesis that focus on prediction. In this talk\, I provide an overview of basic concepts of machine learning and misconceptions for its use in social science research. I also review different types of machine learning methodology and the role of machine learning in area of data science. Finally\, I briefly discuss part of my research on the intersection between machine learning and psychometrics for short-form development and diagnostic assessment and discuss what each of these fields could learn from each other. \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/interdisciplinary-research-seminars-oscar-gonzalez/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T053255
CREATED:20191206T185948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145301Z
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SUMMARY:Til Stürmer: Propensity scores - principles\, implications and use for study design
DESCRIPTION:On February 7\, 2020\, Til Stürmer\, the Nancy A. Dreyer Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, will present “Propensity scores – principles\, implications and use for study design” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nDr. Stürmer is an internist and epidemiologist with expertise in state of the art methods for nonexperimental treatment comparisons\, including comparative effectiveness research\, and real world evidence based on real world data. He has worked as a cancer epidemiologist\, has over 15 year experience in analyzing claims data and merging claims data to other data sources\, and is an internationally recognized leader in pharmacoepidemiology\, propensity scores\, and disease risk scores. \nDr. Stürmer has led UNC-Chapel Hill’s pharmacoepidemiology program from 2008 through 2018 to become one of the largest and most recognized doctoral training programs in pharmacoepidemiology; During that time\, he was also the director of the Center for Pharmacoepidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology overseeing its expansion to multiple members. Funded by the National Institute on Aging (R01 AG023178\, now R01 AG056479) since 2005\, his interdisciplinary research team published over 100 papers focusing on developing and implementing novel methods to answer clinical questions of importance to older adults in the absence of alternative evidence. \nHe is a former president of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology\, a former member on the FDA Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee\, and director of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) at the NC TraCS Institute\, UNC’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). \nPresentation Abstract: \nPropensity scores are increasingly used to address confounding in nonexperimental research. While they can efficiently balance measured confounders\, their application goes beyond confounding control and has helped researchers to highlight several issues related to study design that can help us to better understand and address sources of variability in exposures (treatments). \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/interdisciplinary-research-seminars-til-sturmer/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200131T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200131T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T053255
CREATED:20191206T191112Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Adriana Lleras-Muney: Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture has been canceled. We will update the CPC website with a new date and time as soon as the lecture has been rescheduled.\n \nOn January 31\, 2020\, Adriana Lleras-Muney will present “Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nAdriana Lleras-Muney is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University and was an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University for seven years before moving to UCLA. Her research examines the relationships between socio-economic status and health\, with a particular focus on education and income. Her most recent work investigates whether cash transfers to poor families improve poor children’s education\, lifetime incomes and long term health. She is an associated editor for the Journal of Health Economics and she serves in the board editors of two other journals\, Demography and the American Economic Journal-Economic Policy. She is also a permanent member of the Social Sciences and Population Studies Study Section at the National Institute of Health. Lleras-Muney is a faculty fellow at the California Center for Population Research (CCPR)\,  the Center for Economic and Social Research and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); and a member of the California Policy Lab. \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/interdisciplinary-research-seminars-adriana-lleras-muney/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200124T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T053255
CREATED:20191206T190908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145301Z
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SUMMARY:Rachel Margolis: The Effects of Gender Equality-Focused Parental Benefits on Union Stability
DESCRIPTION:On January 24\, 2020\, Rachel Margolis will present “The Effects of Gender Equality-Focused Parental Benefits on Union Stability” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nRachel Margolis is an associate professor in the sociology department at the University of Western Ontario\, where she has worked since her PhD in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.  Her research addresses population aging\, changes in family networks\, population health\, and social policy. \nPresentation Abstract: \nThis paper examines how a policy aimed to promote gender equality at home and in the workplace unintentionally made unions more stable. Paid parental benefits policies were originally designed to increase women’s return to work after childbirth. However\, more recent extensions of these policies aim to promote more equal care and paid work for parents. This is a great example of a social policy which was first used to encourage the first phase of the gender revolution\, the movement of women into the paid labor force\, and then have been adapted to promote the second phase of this revolution\, the movement of men into care work and housework. Even though these policies have no explicit aims regarding relationship stability\, these policies have the potential to shift union stability because the newly unequal division of labor is a source of stress and common cause of union dissolution for parents. Using administrative data from Canada\, this paper contributes to a broad literature in sociology about whether and how family policies can shape unions and family structure. \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/rachel-margolis-the-effects-of-gender-equality-focused-parental-benefits-on-union-stability/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200117T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T053255
CREATED:20191206T190616Z
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SUMMARY:Myron Cohen: Prevention of HIV 2020
DESCRIPTION:On January 17\, 2020\, Myron Cohen\, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health and Medical Affairs; the Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine\, Microbiology and Immunology\, and Epidemiology; and the Director of the Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, will present “Prevention of HIV 2020” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nDr. Cohen’s research work focuses on the transmission and prevention of transmission of STD pathogens including HIV. Much of his work has been conducted at the research sites he and his group have developed in Lilongwe\, Malawi and Beijing\, China. Dr. Cohen and his coworkers have identified the concentration of HIV in genital secretions required for transmission of HIV ( NEJM 336:1072\, 1997; AIDS 15: 621\, 2001)\, and the effects of genital tract inflammation on HIV (Lancet 349: 1868\, 1997). \nAlong with Sylvia Becker-Dreps\, MD\, MPH\, Natalie Bowman\, MD\, MPH\, and Filemon Bucardo of the University of Nicaragua-Leόn\, Dr. Cohen is studying Zika as a sexually transmitted disease. \nStreaming: https://zoom.us/j/490091454 \nA recording will be available after the event. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/myron-cohen-director-of-the-institute-for-global-health-and-infectious-diseases/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200110T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T053255
CREATED:20191206T190321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145301Z
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SUMMARY:Add Health Team: Add Health Wave V: New Directions\, New Data
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, January 10\, the Add Health Team will present “Add Health Wave V: New Directions\, New Data” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nThe National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of adolescents in grades 7-12 in the United States during the 1994-95 school year. The Add Health cohort has been followed into young adulthood with four in-home interviews\, the most recent in 2008\, when the sample was aged 24-32. Add Health re-interviewed cohort members in a Wave V follow-up from 2016-2018 to collect social\, environmental\, behavioral\, and biological data with which to track the emergence of chronic disease as the cohort moves through their fourth decade of life. \nAdd Health combines longitudinal survey data on respondents’ social\, economic\, psychological and physical well-being with contextual data on the family\, neighborhood\, community\, school\, friendships\, peer groups\, and romantic relationships\, providing unique opportunities to study how social environments and behaviors in adolescence are linked to health and achievement outcomes in young adulthood. The fourth wave of interviews expanded the collection of biological data in Add Health to understand the social\, behavioral\, and biological linkages in health trajectories as the Add Health cohort ages through adulthood\, and the fifth wave of data collection continues this biological data expansion. \nStreaming: https://zoom.us/j/990224137 \nA recording will also be available after the event. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/add-health-team-carolina-population-center/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191122T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T053255
CREATED:20190920T132719Z
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SUMMARY:Keely Muscatell: The Social Life of the Immune System: Bi-Directional Links between Social Experiences and Inflammation
DESCRIPTION:On 11/22/2019\, Keely Muscatell will present “The Social Life of the Immune System: Bi-Directional Links between Social Experiences and Inflammation” as part of the Carolina Population Series 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nKeely Muscatell is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at UNC Chapel Hill. Trained as a social neuroscientist\, her research focuses on elucidating the neurobiological mechanisms that link social experiences and health. Her work is highly interdisciplinary\, as she employs theory and methods from social psychology\, cognitive and affective neuroscience\, psychoneuroimmunology\, pharmacology\, and population health. Keely completed post-doctoral training in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars program at UCSF/UC Berkeley\, and in the Psychology Department at Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from UCLA in June 2013\, an MA in Psychology from UCLA in 2009\, and a BA in Psychology and Spanish from the University of Oregon in 2006. When not in the lab\, Keely can be found reading Dave Eggers\, Ben Lerner\, and Zadie Smith\, watching college football\, and/or drinking craft beer while listening to their vinyl collection with her partner\, Dave Rose. \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar. Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/keely-muscatell-the-social-life-of-the-immune-system-bi-directional-links-between-social-experiences-and-inflammation/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191115T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T053255
CREATED:20190920T132602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145302Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Glick: Family Migration and Educational Aspirations: Preliminary results from the first wave of the Family Migration and Early Life Outcomes (FAMELO) Project
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, November 15\, Jennifer Glick will present “Family Migration and Educational Aspirations: Preliminary results from the first wave of the Family Migration and Early Life Outcomes (FAMELO) Project” as part of the Carolina Population Series 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nStreaming information: Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/420629922 \nJennifer Glick is a social demographer who focuses primarily on migration and family processes. Her work has been directed at the intersection of migration and the family life course and the extent to which migration alters educational and labor force trajectories and influences the timing and patterns of family formation. She is also interested in the importance of migration for intergenerational relationships and living arrangements. \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar. Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/jennifer-glick-family-migration-and-educational-aspirations-preliminary-results-from-the-first-wave-of-the-family-migration-and-early-life-outcomes-famelo-project/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191108T130000
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SUMMARY:Marissa Hall: Health warning labels: Applying behavioral science experiments to inform public policy
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, November 8\, Marissa Hall will present “Health warning labels: Applying behavioral science experiments to inform public policy” as part of the Carolina Population Series 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nStreaming information: Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/358600217 \nMarissa Hall uses behavioral science to inform policies to prevent cancer and other chronic diseases. Much of her research focuses on the impact of pictorial tobacco product warnings on both intended and unintended outcomes. She is also leading several experiments to examine the impact of obesity prevention policies such as sugar-sweetened beverage health warnings and taxes\, with a focus on preventing childhood obesity among Latinx populations. Her research is currently supported by a K01 Career Development Award from NIH and grants from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar. Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/marissa-hall-health-warning-labels-applying-behavioral-science-experiments-to-inform-public-policy/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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